Hi,<br><br>My understanding is that the updated epg data has been transmitted here in the uK across all dvb-t mux&#39;s since about March/April. Not all channels may have completely updated there backend systems yet but all the major channels have done so. Clearly launching the Freeview Playback &#39;brand&#39; and therefore its feature set means the epg data must be broadly available for these new PVR boxes to work as advertised.
<br><br>So the data must be there somewhere ;-)<br><br>Andrew<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave P</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:vdr@pickles.me.uk">vdr@pickles.me.uk</a>&gt; wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tuesday 12 Jun 2007, Alex Stansfield wrote:<br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; with the launch of Freeview Playback in the UK, I was wondering if
<br>&gt; anyone here knew how the series links were sent to the dvb box.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Freeview Playback is a system by which series link information is sent<br>&gt; to the dvb box, allowing someone to select to record a whole series.
<br>&gt; Some sort of link information is sent, I guess in the epg, about each<br>&gt; episode so that the dvb box can be sure it&#39;s always recording unique<br>&gt; episodes of a series.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I thought that support for Freeview Playback would be an excellent
<br>&gt; addition to plugins like epgsearch.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; If anyone knows any more about how the system works or has the DTG<br>&gt; specification (can&#39;t see it on their website) please let me know.<br><br>The EPG format is covered by this document (which I think is the latest
<br>issue)<br><br><a href="http://webapp.etsi.org/action/OP/OP20060428/en_300468v010701o.pdf">http://webapp.etsi.org/action/OP/OP20060428/en_300468v010701o.pdf</a><br><br>so presumably the data fits in to the specification somehow. I looked
<br>through this and also checked the broadcast data with dvbsnoop last<br>weekend but couldn&#39;t see anything obvious. Maybe no-one is broadcasting<br>the links yet.<br><br>It would certainly be an excellent addition to VDR.
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